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Quirk Alert 2: Calling oddballs

April 13, 2003|By Devin Rose.

We just snorted our way through Judy Reiser's book "And I Thought I Was Crazy! Quirks, Idiosyncrasies and Meshugaas" (Katalin Media, $12.95), and we have a thought: We know you Q readers can out-quirk the people she talked to!

Sure, there's the man who cooks a steak on his carburetor as he drives to his weekly card game, and the guy who smokes cigarettes with a fork. There's the woman who dusts her furniture with her panties just before she drops them into the dirty-clothes hamper, and the one who washes and curls her hair so she'll look nice when she goes to the hairdresser. And you gotta hear about the guy who has been saving his toenails and fingernail clippings since 9th grade--but that's not quirky, that's revolting.

So we're putting out the call again: What quirky things will you or "a friend" admit to?